{"id":240761,"date":"2025-10-25T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/240761\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:39:08","slug":"ufc-321-bonuses-head-kicks-and-heel-hooks-and-bloodbaths-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/240761\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 321 bonuses: Head kicks and heel hooks and bloodbaths, oh my"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UFC handed out\u00a0four bonuses after Saturday’s card in the Middle East, including one for a certain Knockout of the Year candidate.<\/p>\n

After UFC\u00a0321, four fighters picked up an extra $50,000 for their performances at Etihad Arena in\u00a0Abu Dhabi. Check out the winners below.<\/p>\n

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Fight of the Night: Ludovit Klein def. Mateusz Rebecki<\/p>\n

Ludovit Klein (24-5-1 MMA, 8-3-1 UFC) and Mateusz Rebecki (20-4 MMA, 4-3 UFC) put on one of the bloodiest fights in recent memory on the prelims. Klein did great work for 10 minutes, but in the third round, he said after the fight from a stool-based interview, he broke his ankle. That kept him unable to get up while Rebecki mounted a comeback \u2013\u00a0including a 10-8 round that got him a\u00a0draw from one judge. But the other two judges scored the third a 10-9, and Klein took a majority decision.<\/p>\n

\"Ludovit<\/p>\n

Ludovit Klein def. Mateusz Rebecki, UFC 321<\/p>\n

Performance of the Night: Valter Walker<\/p>\n

Valter Walker (15-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) came into his heavyweight fight with Louie Sutherland (10-4 MMA, 0-1 UFC) with three straight heel hook finishes \u2013\u00a0which never had been done before in the history of the UFC. A fourth would be ludicrous, right? But that\u2019s just what he did<\/a> \u2013\u00a0even though Sutherland knew it was coming. Despite the absurdity of four straight heel hooks, he\u2019s only been given bonuses for the most recent two.<\/p>\n

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Performance of the Night: Quillan Salkilld<\/p>\n

Quillan Salkilld (10-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC) took a short-notice fight against Nasrat Haqparast (18-6 MMA, 10-5 UFC) and came to Abu Dhabi from Australia. Midway through the first round, he landed a head kick that had Haqparast unconscious before his head hit the canvas<\/a>. He was out for quite a bit, too, in one of the scariest knockouts the UFC has seen this year \u2013\u00a0and one sure to be talked about in two months during end-of-the-year awards.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC\u00a0321 bonuses: Valter Walker, Quillan Salkilld, Ludovit Klein, more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC handed out\u00a0four bonuses after Saturday’s card in the Middle East, including one for a certain Knockout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,24356,786,52498,112409,140555,140556,785,85,787,29376],"class_list":{"0":"post-240761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bonuses","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-heavyweight-fight","13":"tag-louie-sutherland","14":"tag-ludovit-klein","15":"tag-mateusz-rebecki","16":"tag-mma","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-ufc","19":"tag-valter-walker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}